Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent! - Chapter 509

Chapter 509: Desperate
Alex glanced back at the humanoid alien from his position thousands of kilometres away, but the act of turning and looking was only a muscle reflex, as things were happening much too far away for him to see.

It wasn’t that his eyesight wasn’t good enough to see it, it was just that the moon they were on was relatively small, so he was practically on the other side of it at this point.

But even when this was the case, he sensed what happened with his spatial perception.

And he couldn’t help but gasp for his breath.

‘That’s the same type of teleportation ability Principal Farnes used!’

He recognised instantly the way the alien seemed to move through space undetected whatsoever until it had already reappeared in view.

As far as he knew, this was only an ability exclusive to the S tiers.

‘But I thought it was an A tier??? Even an A tier is too much for me to deal with, with my current strength, what the fuck is this!?’

‘No… no, wait, perhaps it isn’t an S tier. I’m only assuming the undetectable teleportation ability is one exclusive to S tiers, but I’ve never actually confirmed it with Principal Farnes, or any S or A tier for that fact. Yes! This must be the truth, this thing could still be an A tier! If that’s so, then we still have hope of escaping!’

While he was deep in thought, watching helplessly at the carnage the alien was beginning to ensue with his spatial perception, Mira stood to the side, urgently sending out an emergency signal on every channel, alerting the rest of the fleet to what had happened.

“Come in! Come in! This is Mira of the Exploration team, we are under attack from extremely powerful alien lifeforms! Approximately 200 of them, all B tier and above. Send help immediately. I repeat, send help immediately!”

Even Mira had started to become anxious.

If the Federation didn’t reach them quickly, then the alien would finish killing the rest of the idiot prodigies who ran in for a fight and start rushing over to them!

After all, if Alex could sense it, then it could most definitely – certainly detect them just as easy, if not even easier!

But the most terrifying part?

The pressure.

Even from this distance, Alex felt like a mountain was bearing down on him.

No, even a whole moon was bearing down on him!

He felt suffocated by the raw, unfiltered power.

His knees subconsciously wanted to buckle, and it took a conscious effort from Alex to stop himself from falling to the ground.

‘Sure enough, the difference in power between me and A tiers is still too much of a gap to cover… Though I do suspect that this guy is no ordinary A tier, assuming he is one…’

Back on the battlefield, the prodigies of who tried to fight stood no chance. A third prodigy, a young woman with shimmering, blue tinted skin thanks to her ice attribute, sent a concentrated wave of ice shards hurtling at the alien.

But did she even see what it just did?

She was practically serving herself a death sentence in doing this.

The shards hit the alien dead on, and for a brief moment, she thought she’d landed a hit.

Then, the alien flicked its wrist.

The shards turned to dust in an instant, vaporised by the unseen force it was able to control. The young woman’s eyes widened in horror before she too, was vaporised.

Her body didn’t explode like the others — instead it was like her own ice betrayed her and froze her to a statue in an instant, before falling apart to dust just moments later.

One moment she was there, staring wide eyed and horrified, and the next she was floating away in the wind, life extinguished.

At this point, all of the neutral prodigies had turned to run. Some made it a few more dozen steps.

Others didn’t make it at all.

It was a bloodbath, only the blood of each prodigy gently trickled down like rain after each and every one of them exploded into a mist, with the ice attributed woman being the only exception to this.

The scene was pure chaos. Alex could feel the desperation of the fleeing prodigies through his spatial perception, while Mira still had a bit of a way to go before her own spatial perception extended that far.

Each of the prodigies were in a scramble to escape.

But it was as if the alien was toying with them.

The cold efficiency with which it killed each of its foes was not rushed — it was careful, deliberate, almost mocking.

Alex clenched his butt as he could feel the alien start to chase the fleeing neutral prodigies, who were inconveniently running in the same direction he and Mira were!

“Still no response from the fleet!”

Mira cried out from the side in a trembling tone.

Alex gritted his teeth. If the fleet didn’t come to them soon enough, they’d be toast.

The Federation’s fleet was massive, but that also meant their response time could be agonisingly slow. Even if the signal reached them immediately, would reinforcements arrive before the alien reached their position?

He wasn’t optimistic.

Neither was Mira, and it only made their mood worsen the more they thought about it.

“Keep trying, Mira…”

Alex said in an unusually steady voice despite the fear coursing through the both of them.

“Even if they’re too late for us, they need to know what they’re dealing with.”

Even though he said this, he really hoped it didn’t have to come down to that!

Mira nodded back to him, flicking her fingers over the controls of her communicator at speed.

***

The remaining prodigies fell like leaves in a storm.

One by one, each of them succumbed to their inevitable fate.

The alien didn’t bother with dramatic and flashy attacks — it didn’t need to.

A flick of its wrist, a single step — each motion was more than a death sentence for every prodigy.